Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Swoon


San Francisco, California


24th and Hampshire, Mission District San Francisco, CA

Monday, October 1, 2012

Jelly Bean Art, Sand Art, Mosaics, Pontillism, & Chuck Close

Into Your Arms by Kina Grannis







Sand Mandala

A Tibetan monk creates a Mandala using dyed sand particles.  Once the painting is complete it is viewed for only a short period of time and then is destroyed to symbolize the temporal nature of life.  All or part of the sand is then deposited into a natural body of water in a mindful act to spread peace throughout the world.


Mosaics

Mosaic Art dates back 4,000 years or more.   Here is an example from the Roman Empire found in  Tunis, Tunisia, from the 3rd century-5th century A.D.  18 11/16 x 31 3/4in. (47.5 x 80.6cm).


Mosaic Sculpture, Hearts of San Francisco, 2004 by Laurel True




Pointillism

 Bathers at Asnières, 1884 by Georges Seurat 79 x 118 inches




 Jelly Bean Mosaics

The Great Wave off Kanagawa, 1982  by Peter Rocha (after Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849)





The Girl with a Pearl Earring, 2011 4' x 5' by Kristen Cumings (after Johannes Vermeer, 1665)





Rosie the Riveter, Kristen Cumings (after We Can Do It, 1942 by J. Howard Miller)





Chuck Close

Georgia, 1984 by Chuck Close toned handmade paper, 56 x 45" (142.24 s 114.30 cm.)






President Barack Obama, 2012 by Chuck Close Archival watercolor on rag paper


Making Pennys Count

Abraham Lincoln by Matt Groener  3,111 pennies. 51 wide by 61 tall.  Based on an 1864 photograph of Lincoln 


What will you use?



Friday, February 3, 2012

David Choe, Fine Artist Making a $Buck....from Facebook.
 
                                One of the murals created for Facebook's Headquarters back in 2005




 



Obama, 2008

Stavenger, Norway


Denver,  Colorado

Friday, December 2, 2011

Animation (not just for movies and video games)


Here's animation I showed you in (Art 2) class titled MUTO by an artist name BLU..  Pretty cool stuff, but I'm not advocating that you run out to do street art.  Enjoy.

Also, here are links to the Red Hot Chili Peppers Monarchy of Roses and the A-ha Take on Me video.   Both are examples of how drawing can be integrated into animation sequences for music videos.



William Kentridge
Check out this preview of Kentridge's work.  He finds interesting ways to incorporate drawing, film, & animation into his works of art.  You should check out Breathe as well.



From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two seconds' screen time. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene. These palimpsest-like drawings are later displayed along with the films as finished pieces of art.[1]